Muso Quotes

#1. My thatched hut;
the whole sky Is its roof
The mountains are its hedge,
And it has the sea for a garden.
I'm inside with nothing at all,
Not even a bag,
And yet there are visitors who say "
It's hidden behind a bamboo door"
- Muso Soseki

Muso Soseki

#2. I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

Jason Robert Brown

#3. All worries and troubles have gone from my breast and I play joyfully far from the world. For a person of Zen, no limits exist. The blue sky must feel ashamed to be so small."
Muso Soseki

Muso Soseki

#4. When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

Steve Vai

#5. There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

Georges Braque

#6. When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home.

Muso Soseki

#7. Create quality art ... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

Cory Trepanier

#8. Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Of course, I'm no dummy.

Paul Thomas Anderson

#10. When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

Muso Soseki

#11. I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

Bruce Springsteen

#12. We are all savages

George Bernard Shaw

#13. When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

Muso Soseki

#14. In the prosperous household of Sylvie's childhood, Cook was called 'Cook' but Mrs Glover preferred 'Mrs Glover'. It made her irreplaceable. Sylvie still stubbornly referred to her as Cook.

Kate Atkinson

#15. It would be merciful for people not to come calling and disturb the loneliness of the mountains to which I have returned from the sorrows of the world.

Muso Soseki

#16. If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.

Muso Soseki

#17. The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

Muso Soseki

#18. Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.

Mark McKinnon

#19. Silence, and then Eve said, Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.

Rachel Caine

#20. All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#21. This search is all about faith. Faith that what's clearly impossible might somehow turn out not to be. Faith that we can do what we never would have thought we could. Faith to keep going when everything tells us we should turn back.

Terry Brooks

#22. I never take photographs myself. I don't feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

Christian Boltanski

#23. The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Joseph Joubert

#24. Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.

Muso Kokushi

#25. It is said that the ignorant are obstructed by ignorance, while the intellectuals are obstructed by intellectual knowledge. One way of getting past these obstacles and approaching inherent knowledge is to let go of whatever comes to mind.

Muso Kokushi

#26. It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

Muso Soseki

#27. Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating

Muso Soseki

#28. Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

Leonard Nimoy

#29. Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them.

Muso Soseki